Former Senator Bob Dole (R-KS) died early Sunday morning, according to a social media post from family members. The Kansas native was 98 years old. It is with heavy hearts we announce that Senator Robert Joseph Dole died early this morning in his sleep. At his death, at age 98, he had served the United…

Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams announced she will run for governor in the Peach State’s 2022 election. Abrams previously ran for governor in 2018, losing to Republican then-Secretary of State Brian Kemp. “While my job may have changed, what I know to be true has not,” Abrams said in her campaign announcement video.  I’m running for…

Getting an employer to approve a religious exemption to the COVID-19 vaccine has been challenging for many Americans. According to the Washington Post, thousands of federal workers have applied for religious exemptions. The battle over religious exemptions has put faith leaders between the government and private employers. Anti-vaxers denied religious exemptions Reporter Teryn Gregson posted…

Health experts, world leaders, and news anchors have all been flubbing the pronunciation of Omicron, the latest COVID-19 variant. On Nov. 26, Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, a COVID technical lead at the World Health Organization, announced to the world the newest COVID-19 variant and pronounced it “Oh-my-kraan.”  Three days later, President Joe Biden gave a briefing…

Republicans have found a new target for their performative outrage: Big Bird. The beloved feathered muppet from “Sesame Street” found himself at the center of the GOP’s latest culture war when he declared on Twitter he had received the COVID-19 vaccine. Even though Big Bird has endorsed child vaccinations going all the way back to the…

According to anonymous sources first cited by CNBC and corroborated in various reports Monday, Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey will step down from his position as the company’s CEO. As of late Monday morning, Twitter itself has been quiet on the news. Dorsey did tweet “I love Twitter” early Sunday morning. He then tweeted what appears…

A video posted by the Twitter account “PatriotTakes” Thursday is escalating the feud between Representatives Lauren Boebert (R-CO) and Ilhan Omar (D-MN) just days before Congress is set to return to Washington from its Thanksgiving break. In the video, which PatriotTakes says is from a campaign event, Rep. Boebert told a story about getting into…

Update (Jan. 13, 2022): Nearly two months after the deadly crash at a parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin, prosecutors have added 71 charges to their case against the suspect, Darrell Brooks Jr. The charges, part of a criminal complaint filed Wednesday, include multiple counts of reckless endangerment, hit-and-run involving death, battery and bail jumping. “All of the…

In an editorial published Sunday evening in the online magazine The Dispatch, Fox News commentators Jonah Goldberg and Stephen Hayes announced they would be leaving the network. The two described the network as a place where “the voices of the responsible are being drowned out by the irresponsible.” “We remain grateful for the opportunities we’ve…

Cancel culture has claimed another victim. This time it was Dorian Abbot, a physics professor who was scheduled to talk at MIT about “climate and extra-terrestrial life” — except he committed the sin of expressing differing beliefs about diversity. He published an opinion piece that argued diversity and inclusion politics were undermining the primary mission…